News

November 03, 2007 12:30

• Gambaryan: USA yielded to Turkey's blackmail in the issue of genocide against Armenians

  Aram Gambaryan, Executive Director of the Committee "Ay Data" (Armenian Issue) in America, is confident that the US Administration of the USA "has conceded to Turkish blackmail" in the issue of recognition of the genocide against Armenians, in order not to endanger its primary strategic interests.

November 03, 2007 12:28

• Nukhazhiev has called on the Ministries of Internal Affairs of Chechnya and Dagestan to stop extortions on the border

  Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in Chechnya, held a meeting with the heads of power agencies of Dagestan and Chechnya and discussed with them the facts of extortion on the roads.

November 03, 2007 12:24

• The Ombudswoman of Dagestan is against "touring human rights activists"

  Svetlana Alisultanova, the new Ombudsperson of Dagestan, has criticized the activity of the "touring human rights activists" who work in the territory of Dagestan, and has stated that there are no kidnappings in the Republic.

November 03, 2007 12:21

• Journalists prepare all-national protest action in Azerbaijan

  In Azerbaijan journalists have made a decision to hold an all-national meeting on December 10 in protest against illegal arrests of journalists and pressure on the free press.

November 03, 2007 12:17

• Georgian opposition demands Saakashvili's resignation

  The sitting of the United National Board of the opposition, which comprises the leaders of the ten major oppositional political organizations, has moved a demand that Mikhail Saakashvili should resign from the post of President of Georgia.

November 02, 2007 13:03

• Attempts on militiamen and Sheikh Said-Apandi Tsirkeisky are prevented In Dagestan

  In Dagestan, a diversion grouping has been neutralized, who prepared an attempt on the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and religious figures.

November 02, 2007 12:59

• Action in support of non-recognized republics held in Volgograd

  On November 1, the "New People" Inter-Regional Youth Public Organization held a protest action in the centre of Volgograd under the motto "Spectacles for Bush".

November 02, 2007 12:52

• About 300,000 came to the meeting in Georgia

  About three hundred thousand persons rallied to the action of the opposition in front of the building of the Parliament of Georgia.

November 02, 2007 12:34

• Kondopoga: convicts for pogroms of trading points belonging to Caucasian natives can appeal against the verdict

  The advocates of the persons condemned for instigation of mass disorders in the city of Kondopoga, intend to appeal against the verdict should their clients agree to it.

November 02, 2007 12:29

• Residents of Tolyatti block the traffic in the street where the terror act was accomplished

  In Tolyatti, about 200 citizens made a "live chain" and blocked the Gagarin Street where the October 31 terror act was committed.

November 02, 2007 12:26

• North Ossetian court admits violations at re-registration of "Voice of Beslan"

  The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has admitted the fact of numerous violations when making a ruling on re-registration of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee.

November 01, 2007 14:56

• Azerbaijan: Editor slammed with hefty sentence

  The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces a lengthy prison sentence handed down by an Azerbaijani court to independent editor Einullah Fatullaev.

November 01, 2007 13:59

• Russia's Ministry of Nature challenges the Adygea ecologists' victory in the trial on Sochi National Park

  The consideration of the cassations lodged by the RF Ministry for Natural Resources (MNR) of the Russian Federation and the RF "Rosprirodnadzor" (Environment Supervisory Division) under the MNR at the Supreme Court of Adygea is appointed on November 2.

November 01, 2007 13:53

• News Corporation: "Imedi" managers and policy in Georgia remain unchanged

  According to the statement of representatives of the News Corporation Company, which became yesterday, on October 31, an absolute owner of the Georgian TV Company "Imedi", the political orientation and the managers of the Company will remain unchanged.

November 01, 2007 13:48

• Khidriev brothers suspected of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train face no charges

  The suspected of undermining the "Neva-Express" train Maksharip Abdul-Karimovich and Amirkhan Abdul-Karimovich Khidriev have faced no charges yet. According to a well-informed source in Veliki Novgorod, it has become known that the Khidrievs are exposed to tortures and beatings with the aim to force them to plead guilty of undermining the "Neva-Express" train.

November 01, 2007 13:45

• On the eve of the opposition meeting authorities of Georgia block traffic

  On the eve of the general meeting on November 2, problems with movement have onset all over Georgia. Since today's morning, traffic has been blocked in the regions.

November 01, 2007 13:36

• "Voice of Beslan" to appeal against court ruling on victims' complaint against inspectors

  The "Voice of Beslan" public organization of terror act victims has filed a cassation complaint to the ruling of the Promyshlenny Court of North Ossetia, which had rejected the complaint of the victims on the actions of the investigatory group engaged in investigating the Beslan tragedy.

November 01, 2007 13:33

• Ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment

  The Azerbaijani Court for Grave Crimes has finalized, under the presidency of Judge Tofik Pashaev, the litigation on the case of ex-Minister of Economic Development of Farkhad Aliev and 18 more persons, accused of crimes under various articles of the Criminal Code.

November 01, 2007 13:29

• Opposition: Bacho Akhalaya's people stand behind Okruashvili's exclusion from Georgia

  Irakliy Okruashvili was going to take part in the meeting on November 2, but under a threat of arrest he was forced to leave Georgia by subordinates of Bacho Akhalaya, head of the Department for Enforcing Punishments under the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.

October 31, 2007 14:07

• Meeting at Solovki Boulder in Moscow demanded release of political prisoners

  On October 30, about two hundred Moscow residents who rallied near the Solovki Boulder in Moscow demanded that the Kremlin immediate release political prisoners and paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the repressions during the totalitarian Soviet regime.